Marauder Posted May 30, 2015 Report Posted May 30, 2015 When you really get into the thick of it the screen fills up in 30 seconds to where its unreadable. Keeping visual is a must then. Seriously. image.jpgimage.jpg I have not been flying nearly enough since last fall so it was great to get to take the Mooney over to 8A0 yesterday. On the return I took a pic of the GTN 750 set on the weather page. The Stormscope is in the pic. As I've written more than once on various threads here, the StormScope is the more important of the two but on an afternoon where buildups were numerous having both made a dicey scene very routine. The selfie is not relevant. DrBill will be jealous that Nancy enjoys flying though I couldn't get her to Kerrville. We were at 9000 (the MSA) so the O2 is a personal choice. Without it my blood oxygen was below 90%. I noticed both of you have the range set for 100 nm. Is that the optimal range to be using while enroute? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Bob_Belville Posted May 30, 2015 Author Report Posted May 30, 2015 Chris, I keep it set on 100 all the time though I may flip it to 50 in it is busy. Then if I have to thread my way through a frontal line with embedded cells I will pull it in. If I get to 25 it's a going to be a tight squeeze. When I regularly flew between NC and SE FL it was very common to have to penetrate a line of CBs stretching E/W between Savannah and Jacksonville and so wide that going around was not an option. I think the boundary of tropical weather to the south and frontal weather above that line was a factor in how often this pattern occurred. In those days, 1980s, the Stormscope and ATC was all I had of course. If I sound like a Ryan cheerleader it is based upon those years. I don't have those records anymore but I want to say I paid about $9000 for a Ryan StormScope (a WX-10A?) in the early '80s. I had bought the plane in '77 for $18,000. It was only 11 years old, IFR with 200 hours on the engine. I think the SS came before the Stec A/P. 2
Hank Posted May 30, 2015 Report Posted May 30, 2015 I've found 100 nm to be a good "normal" setting. If I'm heading toward something that I know is there, I'll pop it up to 200 just to see where it is and how things are developing. Then I switch back to 100 when I get closer. 1
Bob_Belville Posted May 30, 2015 Author Report Posted May 30, 2015 100 is the max on my WX 900. Of course that is a relative distance. Stronger cells will appear nearer. Plus if the screen is not cleared multiple strikes on the same radial will be plotted along that radial progressively closer to the plane. I'm pretty sure that's what Bryan's pic is showing.
Hank Posted May 30, 2015 Report Posted May 30, 2015 Wow! My WX-10 has settings for 25, 50, 100 and 200 nm, as well as "Forward" which I never use. Since I just bought a -950 here, the -10 will soon be for sale.
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